Australian actor Guy Pearce has filmed a bizarre music video for his new pop single, staging a series of fake infomercials and playing a fitness instructor who grows breasts. The Memento star, 46, has fulfilled his music dream by recording an album called Broken Bones, and he has released a quirky promo to accompany his new single, Fly All the Way.
Pearce is shown portraying a number of different characters for a series of fake infomercials, and in one he is seen as a cheesy, moustachioed fitness instructor promoting an abs-defining device who ends up growing breasts by the end of the film.
Other characters include a crazy professor with a bad comb-over who promotes a brain expanding pill, a tech guru who has a USB port installed on one of his fingers, a meat-mad chef, and a wrinkled woman in a purple wig.

Russell Crowe's directorial debut The Water Diviner looks set to dominate the upcoming Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards after scoring eight nominations.
The World War II drama, which marks Crowe's first stint behind the camera, landed him both a Best Film nomination and a nod for Best Lead Actor at the AACTA awards, Australia's version of the Oscars.
The movie also scored nods in the categories for Best Supporting Actor (Yilmaz Erdogan), Best Supporting Actress (Jacqueline McKenzie) and Best Original Screenplay, as well as mentions for editing, production and costume design.
Ethan Hawke's sci-fi thriller Predestination also looks set to be a big winner with nine nominations, going up against The Water Diviner in categories including Best Film, while another major contender is The Rover, with seven nods.
Guy Pearce is to compete with Crowe for the Best Lead Actor trophy for his role in the dystopian drama, while his co-star Robert Pattinson leads the Best Supporting Actor category.
Other nominees in the Best Film category along with The Water Diviner and Predestination include horror movie The Babadook, The Railway Man, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, Charlie's Country, and Mia Wasikowska's Tracks. INXS drama INXS - Never Tear Us Apart scored multiple nominations in the TV categories including a Best Lead Actor In A Television Drama nod for Luke Arnold for his role as tragic singer Michael Hutchence.
The awards will be handed out at a ceremony in Sydney, Australia on 29 January (15).

Actor Guy Pearce is set to hit the stage with Powderfinger star Darren Middleton as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia in February (15). The Memento star's new album Broken Bones has just been released.

Guy Pearce is set to tackle the role of The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald opposite British actor Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway in new movie Genius. Theatre director Michael Grandage will make his feature film debut with the big screen adaptation of A. Scott Berg's award-wining biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, about the relationship between American novelist Thomas Wolfe, played by Jude Law, and his editor Max Perkins, who will be portrayed by Colin Firth.
Now Iron Man 3 star Pearce and The Wire actor West have joined the line-up for the movie as Perkins' other famous writers.
The film will also feature Nicole Kidman as costume designer and writer Aline Bernstein, who was romantically linked to Wolfe in the 1920s, and Laura Linney as Perkins' wife, Louise.
Production on the project is due to begin in the U.K. next month (Oct14).
The period movie will reunite Grandage with Law, who starred in the theatre mogul's West End production of Henry V last year (13), and Pearce with Kidman, who co-star in forthcoming thriller Strangerland.

Actor Jason Donovan has hinted he will reunite with his former Neighbours co-star Kylie Minogue for a special scene marking the hit Australian drama's 30th birthday next year (15) if their pal Guy Pearce joins in. Donovan, Pearce, and pop star Minogue found fame on the long-running soap opera in the 1980s before leaving to pursue highly successful stage and screen careers.
Neighbours turns 30 next year and producers have a few surprises in store for viewers, prompting fans to speculate that Minogue is planning a comeback cameo after she posted a message on Twitter.com referring to buying a pair of overalls, as worn by her mechanic character in the show.
However Donovan, who played her onscreen boyfriend in the drama, has grave doubts about returning for a cast reunion but admits he would consider it if his two old pals sign up.
He tells U.K. TV show Loose Women, "The thing about something like that I feel is it's got to be a great effort - you can't just (have) one or two (stars returning). Possibly if Kylie and Guy (returned)... The problem is the publicity would sort of overshadow any contribution we would make. I don't know at this stage..."

Australian actor Guy Pearce's popular Jack Irish detective miniseries is heading to the U.S. Executives at Fox are adapting the three-part TV movie into a series of one-hour episodes for American audiences, according to Variety.com.
Based on crime writer Peter Temple's books, Pearce stars as the titular Jack Irish, a former criminal lawyer-turned-private investigator and debt collector who attempts to get his life back together after his wife is murdered.
Jack Irish originally aired in Australia in 2012.

Australian actor Guy Pearce is still haunted by his father's tragic death in a fiery plane crash every time he travels by air. The Memento star was just eight years old when his test pilot father died in 1976 during the trial of a new prototype aircraft in Victoria, Australia.
Pearce admits the memory of the tragedy troubles him whenever he is on a flight, and he spends most of the journey fearing a crash.
He tells Britain's The Guide magazine, "Every time I get in a plane I think about what it would be like to have the pilot say, 'Sorry, we're plummeting to earth.' And you're done."

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Actor Robert Pattinson was left in awe of his sister Lizzy when she recently tried out for The X Factor in the U.K.
The Twilight star's elder sibling showed off her own skills during an audition for the upcoming season of the hit talent show, and even passed the first round in front of judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Melanie Brown and Louis Walsh.
Pattinson couldn't be more proud of his sister, gushing to The Huffington Post, "I'm like, so ridiculously proud of her. I would never have the balls to do that, ever, in a million years. I can't believe she's done it. So, it's amazing."
In addition to loaning her voice to a number of dance tracks in the early 2000s, Lizzy also contributed background vocals to the Twilight scores. The 11th season of The X Factor in the U.K. kicks off later this month (Aug14).

Australian actor Guy Pearce is preparing to fulfil his longtime musical ambitions by releasing his first solo album. The Memento star, 46, has long dreamed of making music but he put his plans on the backburner after seeing the savaging some actors-turned-singers receive from critics.
The closest Pearce came to launching a singing career was recording the soundtrack to his 1999 movie A Slipping-Down Life, in which he plays a small-town musician struggling to make it big, but he is now set to release his first solo album in November (14).
He tells Australia's Sydney Daily Telegraph, "Every time I did an interview in the late '80s and early '90s and mentioned I made music the journalist would roll their eyes and go 'Not another f**king actor who's going to release a single.' I would extremely apologetically say 'No, of course not! I'd never inflict that on the world.' I allowed that narrow minded belief to drive everything for years. Although maybe people were just sick of actors making music...
"As we all know back in the '80s a couple of other actors I worked with all went out and released singles, then a few more did. I was very conscious of how that was received. It wasn't always in a positive way. I was very conscious of not wanting to seem like I was jumping on the bandwagon or annoy people because I wanted to do music myself. So I'd make music but in my loungeroom, or playing with friends, it wasn't public."
A number of Pearce's former co-stars in Australian soap opera Neighbours went on to launch music careers in the 1980s, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, and Stefan Dennis.

Nominated for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie

Played student-turned-teacher Mike Young in the Australian TV serial "Neighbours"

Made feature debut in "Heaven Tonight" playing a rock musician

Landed recurring role on the Australian soap opera "Home and Away"

Played the role of Monty Beragon opposite Kate Winslet in HBO's five-part miniseries "Mildred Pierce"

Played a smooth-talking salesman in the thriller "First Snow"

Co-starred with James Caviezel in "The Count of Monte Cristo"

Toured Australia, as Danny Zuko, in the stage musical "Grease"

Played a Marine prosecutor in the military drama "Rules of Engagement"

Co-starred with Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy in Prohibition-era Western "Lawless"

Moved to Australia with family at age three

Cast in the feature adaptation of Joe Penhall's novel "The Road"

Portrayed a young Errol Flynn in "Flynn/My Forgotten Man" (released theatrically in 1997)

Made U.S. film debut, co-starring with Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe as Los Angeles policemen in the Oscar-nominated "L.A. Confidential"

Played Chance Wayne in an Australian stage production of "Sweet Bird of Youth"

Portrayed King Edward VIII in "The King's Speech"

Portrayed magician Harry Houdini in "Death Defying Acts"

Co-starred with Maggie Grace in the action thriller "Lockout"

Summary

Having earned a considerable reputation in his native Australia through such primetime series as "Neighbours" (Network Ten, 1986- ) and "Home and Away" (Seven Network, 1988- ), actor Guy Pearce earned international attention as the bratty drag queen Adam/Felicia in "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994). Catching the eye of director Curtis Hanson, Pearce went on to international stardom with his unforgettable portrayal of Lt. Edmund Exley in the critically acclaimed neo-noir, "L.A. Confidential" (1997). From there, he starred in both big and small features like "A Slipping Down Life" (1999) and "Rules of Engagement" (2000), before delivering one of his most memorable performances, playing an amnesiac trying to find his wife's murderer in Christopher Nolan's groundbreaking "Memento" (2001). Following underwhelming results with two high-profile projects, "The Count of Monte Cristo" (2002) and "The Time Machine" (2002), Pearce earned critical kudos in smaller fare like "The Proposition" (2006) and "Death Defying Acts" (2008), in which he portrayed famed escapologist Harry Houdini. He delivered a small, but notable turn in "The Hurt Locker" (2009) before portraying King Edward VIII in the Oscar-winning drama "The King's Speech" (2010) and a playboy who seduces a mother and daughter in "Mildred Pierce" (HBO, 2011), which only added to the handsome actor's exceptional versatility.

Name

Role

Comments

Anne Cocking

Mother

English; moved family to Geelong, Australia, where she ran a deer farm; remarried c. 1983

Laurie Cocking

Step-Father

Married Pearce's mother c. 1983

Kate Pearce

Wife

Were childhood sweethearts; married in March 1997

Stuart Pearce

Father

New Zealander; died in a plane crash in 1976 when Pearce was eight years old

Tracy Pearce

Sister

Born c. 1965 with Down Syndrome

Education

Name

The Geelong College

Notes

From ages 16 to 22, Pearce was a competitive amateur bodybuilder, culminating in a Mr. Natural Victoria title.